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Genesplicer posted:There was also a concrete bunker located somewhere on the base, nobody seems to recall where and the records were lost, where they dumped hundreds of gallons of glow-in-the-dark, Radium-based paint.
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No one played Blast Corps on N64 eh?
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# ? Feb 4, 2020 09:50 |
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Unsurprisingly there's not a lot of verified public information about them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safeguards_Transporter quote:SGTs, and the Safe Secure Trailers (SSTs) they tow, are described by the NNSA as "technologically advanced vehicles" that have the capability to safely withstand punishing highway accidents and keep cargo safe in the event of complete immolation of the vehicle. If a SGT comes under attack, unspecified security features in the vehicles give them, according to the NNSA, the capability to "surprise and delay even the most aggressive adversary". The full range of defensive components in SGTs is unknown, but according to some media reports the vehicles are equipped with autonomous weapons systems and other "high-tech surprises" that allow them to independently engage and repel attackers even if all human crew have been killed or disabled. The NNSA has also stated that access to nuclear weapons held within a SST is not possible, even for crew members, due to unspecified security features that prevent the doors from being opened except in "an approved security area".[2][5][6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp5nbA_rFYg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OasNhj1i2ic https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/14253/the-us-moves-nukes-in-booby-trapped-tractor-trailers-straight-out-of-an-action-movie quote:On July 25, 1991, drivers traveling south along Highway 83 past Bismark, North Dakota came across an odd sight, a seemingly innocuous tractor trailer truck stopped along the road, guarded by police and heavily armed federal agents and leaking smoking goop. What local residents didn’t necessarily know – and the Department of Energy wouldn’t tell them at the time – was that they had seen a specialized truck for discreetly carrying nuclear weapons and other radioactive cargoes. These tractor trailers are booby trapped with countermeasures such as immobilizing foam and self-destruct systems, which all sound right out of a Hollywood blockbuster. They belong to the Office of Secure Transportation (OST), which has a checkered record of safety and disciplinary issues. quote:In particular, after poring over the incident, investigators found a fault in one part, called the MA-157, which had gone unnoticed since the first trailers rolled off the conversion line more than a decade earlier. Censors redacted what this part is exactly, but it appears to be part of the circuitry that controlled the defensive countermeasures.
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dr_rat posted:Yep, Blue Sky Mine. It's amazing how much Australian history you can get by listening to their songs. I am imaging some CoD Cosplayers thinking they can join in the nuke convoy because they're convinced Antifa Super Soldiers will try to steal the nuke for Obama to prevent Trump from draining the swamp or something and being politely asked to leave.
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# ? Feb 4, 2020 09:57 |
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Sorry, but there's something hilarious about the idea of "Department of Energy commandos"
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# ? Feb 4, 2020 10:09 |
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The department of energy doesn't sound very exciting until you realize it's essentially meant to be "department of nuclear energy" and then DoE commandos make more sense.
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# ? Feb 4, 2020 10:12 |
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twistedmentat posted:It's amazing how much Australian history you can get by listening to their songs. "Did my time in Vietnam, still mad at Uncle Sam" is a solid song lyric.
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mostlygray posted:When the first BPA study came out, my Mom and Dad freaked out on me and made me buy BPA free
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twistedmentat posted:It's amazing how much Australian history you can get by listening to their songs.
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Asimo posted:The department of energy doesn't sound very exciting until you realize it's essentially meant to be "department of nuclear energy" and then DoE commandos make more sense. Rick loving Perry didn’t realise that.
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Memento posted:"Did my time in Vietnam, still mad at Uncle Sam" is a solid song lyric. It would be if Vietnam and Sam rhymed
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drgitlin posted:It would be if Vietnam and Sam rhymed you try telling Jimmy Barnes to pronounce things properly, let me know how you go with that
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# ? Feb 4, 2020 12:22 |
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UCS Hellmaker posted:I'd like you to really think about this statement, where we would detonate a nuclear warhead on site in open air if something occurred. Even if it was just a normal chemical one where we detonate and seed the surrounding area with nuclear material. Sound perfectly reasonable to me. Detonate warhead before bad guys can steal it. Also killing bad guys in the process. Win win.
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Sagebrush posted:i googled some stuff and This would have made Fury Road a much less exciting movie.
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# ? Feb 4, 2020 14:19 |
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"oh poo poo, that Audi isn't letting us merge!"
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# ? Feb 4, 2020 16:10 |
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GotLag posted:If the aim is to prevent the nuclear weapon from falling in to the wrong hands why not simply detonate it if the vehicle stops unexpectedly? It's the only way to be sure
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# ? Feb 4, 2020 16:27 |
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Not to interrupt Speed but with a nuke chat, but I saw this in the wild the other day. It's OSHA adjacent. And also just
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# ? Feb 4, 2020 16:44 |
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That *has* to be ironic, right? I mean, the rusted Kia, the terrible typeface. Just... I know. I know. It's real.
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# ? Feb 4, 2020 16:48 |
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Sagebrush posted:i googled some stuff and Try 95% horseshit. OSI plz ignore that last part. holtemon fucked around with this message at 17:11 on Feb 4, 2020 |
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Fighter jets? In the United States of America? Surely you jest
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# ? Feb 4, 2020 17:22 |
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rotinaj posted:"oh poo poo, that Audi isn't letting us merge!" No need. There is a self-destruct inside the warhead that renders the warhead useless without full reconstruction, between that and the expanding foam, it makes ambushing it to acquire a warhead a fruitless endeavor.
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# ? Feb 4, 2020 17:23 |
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By the time the terries dig into the foam to get the nuclear material, another nuke will be launched to destroy the lost one.
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# ? Feb 4, 2020 17:30 |
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CommieGIR posted:No need. There is a self-destruct inside the warhead that renders the warhead useless without full reconstruction, between that and the expanding foam, it makes ambushing it to acquire a warhead a fruitless endeavor. All warheads self-destruct. Otherwise they kind of fail their purpose. (I get your point)
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# ? Feb 4, 2020 17:35 |
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Cojawfee posted:By the time the terries dig into the foam to get the nuclear material, another nuke will be launched to destroy the lost one. That will certainly drax they sklounce.
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# ? Feb 4, 2020 17:48 |
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CommieGIR posted:No need. There is a self-destruct inside the warhead that renders the warhead useless without full reconstruction, between that and the expanding foam, it makes ambushing it to acquire a warhead a fruitless endeavor. hmmm no there's still viable nuclear material inside the warhead. Full on denotation, it's the only way to be sure.
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Aramoro posted:hmmm no there's still viable nuclear material inside the warhead. Full on denotation, it's the only way to be sure. Yes, but requires melting and reforming the plutonium, as well as removing and smuggling.a warhead out of a trailer AND ICBM now encased in expanding tough foam.
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CommieGIR posted:No need. There is a self-destruct inside the warhead that renders the warhead useless without full reconstruction, between that and the expanding foam, it makes ambushing it to acquire a warhead a fruitless endeavor. Yes, but you see, that isn't as good of a joke.
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:Not to interrupt Speed but with a nuke chat, but I saw this in the wild the other day. It's OSHA adjacent. And also just That's what you put on the new guys car
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Jusupov posted:That's what you put on the new guys car That's what you put on the car after not using a proper facemask while sanding drywall for years See also: painters
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# ? Feb 4, 2020 18:18 |
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Destroy the asbestos and drywall dust with stolen nukes
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# ? Feb 4, 2020 18:27 |
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Azhais posted:That's what you put on the car after not using a proper facemask while sanding drywall for years Although in terms of design that's the least of its problems.
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# ? Feb 4, 2020 19:04 |
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what if the helicopter had another nuke and the pilots were instructed to crash into the truck to double nuke the nuke? (or the truck and bomb jump high enouh into the air to get optimal coverage)
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# ? Feb 4, 2020 19:51 |
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PhazonLink posted:what if the helicopter had another nuke and the pilots were instructed to crash into the truck to double nuke the nuke? That's smart, if you detonate both nukes at once they cancel each other out. It's newton's third law.
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:Not to interrupt Speed but with a nuke chat, but I saw this in the wild the other day. It's OSHA adjacent. And also just i'm laughing imagining some dude just bawling his eyes out while putting up drywall
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C.M. Kruger posted:The NNSA has also stated that access to nuclear weapons held within a SST is not possible, even for crew members, due to unspecified security features that prevent the doors from being opened except in "an approved security area".
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GotLag posted:If the aim is to prevent the nuclear weapon from falling in to the wrong hands why not simply detonate it if the vehicle stops unexpectedly? I laughed out loud at work. Thank you this cheered me up.
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# ? Feb 4, 2020 20:05 |
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Hardon Crime posted:i'm laughing imagining some dude just bawling his eyes out while putting up drywall don't dox 10 year old me trying to hold a sheet of drywall over my head for my dad
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# ? Feb 4, 2020 20:08 |
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idgi why use trucks to deliver nukes when you could use ballistic missiles which are impossible to intercept??? just put a parachute on it
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"looks like you got a shoring problem there"
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